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diversionist|dɪˈvɜːʃənɪst, daɪ-|
[f. diversion + -ist; cf. Russ. diversánt.]
In Communist usage: a saboteur; also, one who conspires against the government. Also attrib. or as adj. Hence diˈversionism, the activity of a diversionist.
1937Daily Tel. 28 Aug. 12/3 A woman railway worker..has been sentenced to be shot..for ‘putting sulphuric acid in the water bottles’ of three trains bound for Moscow... Her sub-bottle-washer and fellow ‘diversionist’..was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. 1949F. Maclean Eastern Approaches i. ii. 24 For some years past numerous politicians and others had met with this fate, variously branded as ‘Trotskists’, ‘wreckers’, ‘Fascist spies’, ‘diversionists’ and so on. 1951Koestler Age of Longing i. vi. 110 We have proofs that Nadesha Filipovna was one of the leaders of this diversionist conspiracy. 1955Reporter 16 June 3/1 Will Pravda's rash critic now be found to have indulged in right-wing diversionism and petty-bourgeois wrecking? 1955Times 1 July 10/6 He pleaded Guilty to political crimes and diversionist activity, but denied collaborating with the Gestapo during the war. |